A glass-fronted townhouse designed by MVRDV now serves as a store for luxury fashion brand Hèrmes, with warm-tone interiors by French design agency RDAI. Dutch architecture firm MVRDV completed the townhouse's partially see-through facade back in 2016, using hundreds of specially-engineered glass bricks and a transparent high-strength glue. Named Crystal Houses, the building is nestled amongst a parade of [...]
Architecture practice Hamonic+Masson & Associés have designed a new neighborhood development to reimagine suburban Paris. As the winning entry in the Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris competition, the "High Garden" project was made to propose a metropolitan-scaled architecture on various sites within the greater city limits. Responding to the brief, it was designed [...]
The Serpentine Pavilion 2019 designed by Japanese architect Junya Ishigami is taking shape in London. A series of photographs taken by Laurian Ghinitoiu reveals the project's floating roof, a sheet of slate rising from the ground, supported by pillars that make it a refuge. Junya Ishigami explained that his design embodies his philosophy of [...]
Pedro and Juana's Hórama Rama proposal (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss) has been inaugurated this summer as part of the 20th edition of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMAPS1. This architectural installation is a jungle landscape immersed in a large-scale cyclorama that sits on the walls of MoMAPS1's courtyard and will [...]
As part of the actions focused on the rearranging of spaces in the main complex of the Brazilian parliament, the building for the Supplies and Management Facility for the Chamber of Deputies was constructed in an area specifically destined for this purpose in the outskirts of Brasília, the Sector of Supplies and Industries. Aiming [...]
The New York branch of architecture firm OMA has unveiled its design for the extension to the city's SANAA-designed New Museum. OMA has designed an angular addition to double the size of the contemporary art museum, which Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA completed in 2007 in Lower Manhattan. Measuring 60,000 square feet (5.57 square metres), [...]
A French architectural firm has pioneered an exciting new design for an office building in Lyon. Nicolas Laisné Associés designed the open concept of a bioclimatic office building that has a beautiful green layered exterior façade. The offices with a terrace plan have a unique design from the inside out that moves the circulation [...]
Business center "NEO GEO" is a new project of the development company Stone Hedge. It is situated in the South-West of Moscow and can be called a breakthrough for Russian office construction market. Due to the architects' idea the business center not only for work but also for healthy living appeared in Moscow. The [...]
The auditorium of Shanghai University, Weichang Building, located in the eastern part of Baoshan Campus of Shanghai University, was built from 2002 to 2004. It was the main venue for various ceremonies and conferences held by Shanghai University. For the special dance exhibition of the Fifth National University Art Performance is held in Shanghai University in 2018, the original designed will be [...]
